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Sally Elder, co-founder of the North Palouse Journal nine years ago, announced “with regret and sadness” in the Nov. 26 edition that it would be her last. Elder said she was negotiating to sell the publication and was hopeful the weekly will continue. Elder earlier announced she was ending publication of Palouse Magazine, a monthly which featured Palouse country history and lore, after 11 years of publication. She and her late husband, Dan Bothell, published the first edition of the Journal Dec. 7, 2000. The paper served 18 communities in nor...
Ol’ Kris Kringle figures to be a busy, busy man this weekend with appearances booked all over Whitman County. The old elf makes his debut on the Palouse by catching a ride on the back of the Colfax Fire Department’s ladder truck at the tail end of tonight’s Lighted Christmas Parade along Mill Street. The parade ends with a bang, as Spokane’s Entertainment Fireworks blasts their display off the East Hill near the city’s Big Blue water reservoir immediately following the parade. Businesses throughout Colfax will put on their brightest Christmas c...
Facing a regular stream of public records requests, the Palouse city council Nov. 24 approved a new ordinance that will tighten the rules on how people request public records from the city. The new ordinance will limit one public records request per request form. Also, if the fee to make copies for requests goes over $25, the city will charge 10 percent over the fee rate. Palouse residents Steve McGehee and Jim Farr have submitted 19 public records forms with a total of 92 requests over the past 10 months to build a legal case against the city....
Whitman County commissioners plan to enter 2010 with a budget deficit of as much as $250,000 that will be balanced out of working cash reserves from part of the county’s general fund. Through October of this year, the county’s cash account stood at $2,583,412, which is $471,674 over the 10-year average. To meet the budget deficit, the county will tap those cash accounts. The plan calls for moving cash accounts between different departments where budget deficits are expected to appear. Commissioner Greg Partch, longest tenured of the three cou...
Kaylee and Kelly Zimmer from LaCrosse were among those visiting with Sarah Palin at her book signing at Hastings in Richland Sunday. The former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate, who has been on a national promotional tour for her book, Going Rogue, joined her aunt and other family members in the Tri-Cities for Thanksgiving and conducted the book signing after the holiday....
Colfax City Administrator Carl Thompson inspects his work as he finishes putting up Christmas decorations in front of City Hall. The yule season is in full swing, with Christmas just 22 days away, and counting....
The Pullman branch of the county health department may be on the chopping block with the budget crisis facing the county. The Pullman Regional Hospital Foundation, which supplies office space to the county, no longer wants to rent the building to the health department. This leaves the county with the choice of shutting down the branch in the professional mall or buying it from the foundation before the lease ends in July. “If it were not there, I think the case load for doctors and the emergency rooms would pick up considerably,” said Fran Mart...
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Whitman County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on December 7, 2009 at 11:30 a.m. in their Chambers, Whitman County Courthouse, Colfax, Washington. The purpose of the hearing is to review community development and housing needs, inform citizens of the availability of funds and eligible uses of the state Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), and to receive comments on proposed activities, particularly from low and moderate income persons and persons residing in the Whitman County area. $125,968.00...
